Word: byelorussia
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...might come as good news to Soviet factory managers who complain that they are hamstrung by too many orders from Moscow. The new regulations, effective early next year, will apply only to five ministries that control transport and heavy-machinery plants, electrotechnical factories, and selected industries in the Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania. But they will give local managers in these target factories a greater role in setting their own production goals. In an effort to halt the decline in exports of manufactured goods, which accounted for only about 13% of all 1982 exports, managers will also be expected to measure...
...little book contains no names, not even that of its owner, though there is evidence that he had some connection with Vitebsk, in Byelorussia, and had served with Soviet forces in Hungary. He was a dead Soviet paratrooper, whose personal journal had fallen into the hands of anti-Soviet Afghans...
...behalf of Harris is Moscow's professed horror that he faces the death penalty. In the Soviet Union, people found guilty of such crimes as bribery, graft and theft of state property are sometimes executed by firing squad. Last month, one A.G. Metlushko was sentenced to death in Byelorussia for a series of armed assaults - crimes for which Johnny Harris got life...
...guest as to where they should go. "What he wants to see, we will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States...
...Denmark's Anker Jörgensen and Austria's Bruno Kreisky-who were due in Paris to attend an annual meeting of the Socialist International this week. "They are coming here as militants," Pompidou protested, "not as chiefs of state." Two days later, he flew off to Byelorussia for a two-day conference with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that seemed designed, at least in part, to make points with the French left...